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As mentioned in “The Story of Stuff”, many of our natural resources come from undeveloped Third World nations with horrible environmental records. Because they are so poor, resources are pillaged and sold to developed nations in an UNSUSTAINABLE way. These people are so economically vulnerable that they literally cannot afford to operate in a sustainable fashion. For that reason, it is necessary that these Third World economies be developed at least to the point where pollution and resource depletion can be addressed.

Social Equity

Social equity refers to socioeconomic fairness or social justice. This is similar to the economic development pillar in that it encapsulates the ethical imperative for equity between the richest and the poorest members of the human family. The wealthiest people consume far more than their fair share of resources. I completed the “Foot Print Calculator” exercise. If all people in the world consumed resources the way I do, we would need 6 more planet Earths to provide those resources. Social equity means that the people in rich nations should curb their consumption of resources at least to a level where if that resource consumption was universal, the entire human race could live within the means of our one and only planet.

According to the Brundtland Report, the simple definition of sustainability is: “meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” This extends the social equity component to include future generations. Not only must we seek social equity among all members of the human family in the present, we must also extend that social equity to all future generations.

Environmental Protection

Ultimately, the first two pillars must be optimized to serve the third pillar, environmental protection. Sustainability most directly refers to protecting the environment, but encompasses the economic and social equity factors because these so directly affect the environment. Environmentally, sustainability means maximizing efficiency and minimizing negative environmental impact. Most directly, this refers to the need to keep our air and water clean while minimizing our waste. This addresses our need to reduce carbon emissions most critically, but also all emissions of environmental toxins and pollution and waste into the air and water. This incorporates the need to respect biodiversity and to manage our use of trees and natural fisheries to be sustainable.

It seems relevant to this Ethics discussion that the low-information reality television watchers and disgruntled mobs in the United States have just elected a President who intends to gut environmental regulations, increase POLLUTION, begin immediate DEFORESTATION of protected forest land to expand logging. He intends to expand the use of COAL while gutting regulations on PETROLEUM and mineral extraction. He plans on gutting regulations to protect food safety. He plans to increase military spending, all while cutting TAXES for the top 1%, gutting the social safety net, and paying for these tax cuts and military spending by borrowing $6 trillion from future generations adding to the DEFICIT and public DEBT. This man is IRRESPONSIBLE, UNETHICAL and a DANGER to the planet and future generations. His ideas and methods are UNSUSTAINABLE.

Ken Meyering
PHIL 346 – Essay 2
November 21, 2016

Summarizing the Instructions – A Hypothetical Scenario

I have been asked to participate in an advisory panel for a
company preparing a textbook on "Professional Ethics in the Workplace."My panel has been asked to make a
recommendation on a specific question: "Should the next edition of the text
include a section addressing RACISM and DISCRIMINATION in the workplace?"I am a member of Group A that is arguing that
RACISM is an ethical issue and should be included in the text.Group B argues that RACISM should not be
included in the text because "RACISM isn’t a problem anymore" or
"DISCRIMINATION is more of a political issue than an ethical one."The following is my analysis for Group A,
which anticipates the objections of Group B while providing counterarguments.

The Importance of Teaching about RACISM and DISCRIMINATION in a
Professional Ethics Textbook – Arguments, Objections and Counterarguments

RACISM and DISCRIMINATION, institutional, explicit and implicit,
has been an integral part of the fabric of American democracy since its
inception.Since the time of Aristotle, the study of ethics and justice has emphasized the first
principles of equality and fairness.Because our all WHITE Founding Fathers did not see
BLACKS as fully human, American treatment of African Americans was explicitly
and institutionally UNFAIR for the first 200 years of our country’s
existence.Our nation has grown over the
centuries and BLACKS have been given greater legal rights and economic opportunities
over time, but racial economic disparity between BLACKS and WHITES exists to
this day resulting in a system that is still deeply UNFAIR to BLACKS.

[QUESTION] Is it
critical that a Professional Ethics textbook that teaches social justice frameworks
of equality and fairness cover the present-day dimensions of RACISM and
DISCRIMINATION as they apply to the modern society and workplace? [THESIS] Because of the historical social INJUSTICE
and economic disparity between BLACKS and WHITES that continues into the
present, it is imperative that modern Professional Ethics textbooks devote
significant attention to the very real dimensions of RACISM and DISCRIMINATION
that exist in modernity.

Way Back When - A Short Course in Root Cause Analysis

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson, with editing assistance from
Benjamin Franklin, wrote the Declaration of Independence. They were both RACIST HYPOCRITES. The second paragraph of the United States
Declaration of Independence reads:

We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed;

During his lifetime, Thomas Jefferson owned six hundred
SLAVES.Benjamin Franklin owned two
SLAVES.At that time, BLACKS were not
considered fully human by American WHITES, and the consent of the governed meant the consent of
WHITE males who were the only ones able to vote.While they were certainly governed by rich
WHITE men who were land owners, SLAVES (and women) did not have the opportunity
to consent to anything through their own right to vote.Thomas Jefferson, in this regard and
according to this document, was a RACISTHYPOCRITE, although by all historical
measures was an exceptionally ethical and moral person and likely none of his
contemporaries would have judged him as such unless, of course, they happened
to be SLAVES who could read the Declaration of Independence.

The United States continued with SLAVERY until the end of
the Civil War, when Congress abolished it on January 31st, 1865,
ratifying the 13th Amendment to the Constitution on December 6th,
1865, about 90 years after Jefferson and Franklin wrote about the self-evidence
of the equality of men.On February 3,
1870, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African
Americans the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude." However, through the use of means such as
poll taxes, literacy tests and other mechanisms, Southern BLACKS were
effectively prevented from voting for nearly another hundred years. It wasn’t until the 1960’s Civil Rights
Movement and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965
that racial DISCRIMINATION in voting was fully prohibited by federal law. Richard Nixon got around that with his WAR on DRUGS, turning COMMON MINORITY BEHAVIORS into FELONIES, thereby DENYING voting rights.

In "RACISM without RACISTS: Color-Blind RACISM and the
Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States," ethicist Eduardo
Bonilla-Silva made the case that this past overt RACISM segregated and
disadvantaged BLACK people for nearly two centuries and these disadvantages
continue to this day.Because BLACKS
were originally SLAVES and not land owners, the economic disparity between
BLACKS and WHITES is baked into the cake of our modern social fabric and is an
unfortunate reality in the present.African Americans have the highest POVERTY rates in the U.S. - 27.4%
compared to 9.9% for WHITES.45.8%
percent of BLACK children under the age of 6 live in POVERTY, compared to 14.5%
of WHITES.This is a statistical snapshot
of today’s economic disparity between BLACKS and WHITES, and a prime reason
that RACISM should be taught in ethics courses.

The present reality is that, in qualitative terms, many
BLACKS live in impoverished all BLACK neighborhoods that have poorer schools,
poorer reproductive health care and fewer job opportunities. As a result of this
POVERTY, there is a higher incidence of CRIME, violent and otherwise, in BLACK
communities than in WHITE communities as a sheer result of the POVERTY.This leads to racial stereotypes and implicit
and unconscious moral judgements of BLACKS which becomes an unconscious racial
PREJUDICE. RACISM and DISCRIMINATION are alive and well in the present, but
they are no longer as overt, although overt RACISM still persists in the South.

As modern media is reporting, there is still scant
representation of BLACKS in the police forces of many BLACK communities,
particularly in the South, and there is a visible discrepancy in the treatment
of BLACKS by law enforcement.The War on
Drugs disproportionally affects BLACK citizens, many of whom have felony
records because of marijuana possession.As of this election, 1.4 million BLACK men – one in eight – was
ineligible to vote because of state laws that strip felons of the right to
vote.

Bonilla-Silva interviewed WHITES to determine their
attitudes about race in America and found that there are 4 frames of thinking
that show common explanatory patterns of WHITES who believe that RACISM is a
thing of the past, which he calls "color-blind RACISM."He identified the 4 frames as abstract liberalism, naturalization,
cultural RACISM and minimization of
RACISM.The WHITES who use these
frames see themselves as non-RACISTS, but their familiar thinking patterns are
still racially biased, because of the cognitive approaches of their explanatory
styles.

Our textbook panel in Group B argues that, "RACISM is not
included in other textbooks such as Ethics Across
the Professions." I am
counter-arguing that Group B and the authors of "Ethics Across
the Professions" are exhibiting the fourth frame that Bonilla-Silva addressed -
minimization of RACISM.

In "Racial Microagressions in
Everyday Life: Is subtle bias harmless?," Derald Wang Sue wrote about the very real RACISM that
exists in the present, just beneath the surface.Her results were based on an 8-year study at Teachers College,
Columbia University. She considers the frustrating reality of racial minorities who are on the receiving
end of this UNFAIRNESS and INEQUALITY, which is often couched in overtly
harmless and well-intentioned language.The underlying assumptions, however, are HURTFUL and DEGRADING. This
RACISM is largely based on unconscious stereotypes held by WHITES, many of
which ultimately trace their root cause to CRIME and POVERTY.The matter is made more difficult because the
people who hold these attitudes do not see themselves as being RACIST.Because this "invisible" RACISM is
unconscious, implicit and automatic, ethicists must continue to fight against
it by teaching about it in order to raise awareness, particularly in ethics
textbooks. It is only through training and introspection that WHITES can address
this.

In "The parable of the sadhu," McCoy explored a metaphor for
Corporate Social Responsibility.Without
leadership and goal setting at the highest levels, individuals tend to make
their own contributions to problem solving without taking responsibility for
the well-being of the whole.For this
reason, it is critical that corporate leaders state a vision with the highest
level social responsibility goals being propagated to all members of teams and
groups, so that each individual has a stake and responsibility towards
achieving the socially responsible meta-goals.The lesson here with regard to RACISM is that ethics textbook authors,
like the climbers in the parable, are not likely to take responsibility for the
meta goal of seeking social justice and equity for all members of the human
family, including minorities in the workplace, unless explicitly compelled to
do so.For that reason, and because of
the modern day forms of RACISM discussed above, the socially responsible meta goal of an ethics textbook should be to seek social
justice and equity for all.The
responsible course of action, therefore, is to include a study of modern RACISM
in an ethics textbook.

Also contributing to my thinking are ideas from, "The Ethics
of Sustainability" and Warner and DeCosse’s "A Short
Course in Environmental Ethics: Lesson 4."The first two pillars of Warner and DeCosses
definition of sustainability are Economic
Development and Social Equity.While these concepts were introduced in the
context of Environmental Protection, these elements can also be applied to the
ethical imperative of ending RACISM and DISCRIMINATION.

Because the root cause of so much strife is racial economic
disparity, it is critical that the BLACK communities be developed economically
in the interest of optimizing social equity.This may involve the necessity for legislation of affirmative
action.This means that corporations
should make deliberate efforts towards ensuring that the racial representation
in the workplace mirrors the racial representation in society as a whole.

Arguments against affirmative action generally stem from
what Bonilla-Silva called abstract
liberalism.These are arguments stemming from the
concepts of political liberalism and economic liberalism, such as the idea of
equal opportunity and individualism.They argue that affirmative action such as racial quotas creates a
reverse DISCRIMINATION of WHITES, who may lose employment and educational
opportunities that have been given to less qualified racial minorities.According to these arguments, giving
"preferential treatment" to NONWHITES is intrinsically UNFAIR to WHITES.According to Bonilla-Silva, WHITES who use
these arguments "can appear ‘reasonable’ and even ‘moral,’ while opposing
almost all practical approaches to deal with de facto racial INEQUALITY." (p.
28).

We don’t live in a perfect world.In a perfect world, there would be no need
for affirmative action or racial quotas.An ideal system would be a meritocracy where all opportunities were
available equally to all citizens.However, because of the economic disparity that exists in society
because of the legacy of SLAVERY that remains in the present, achieving the meta goal of fairness and racial equality on the whole may
indeed necessitate giving racial minorities a slight statistical advantage in
education and employment.While, indeed,
this may result in an UNFAIRNESS and INEQUALITY between individual job
applicants, the meta goal of achieving racial equality
on the whole is well served.

The ethical goals of justice and fairness demand confronting
invisible RACISM that is alive and well among WHITES today.While there is certainly less overt RACISM
today due to progressing social norms, the problems that I have addressed are
still very real and responsible leadership in the ethics community means
devoting a section on any course in ethics to issues of racial INEQUALITY.

There are very intelligent and rational arguments against some of my thinking on RACISM in the discussion on a post of mine in the Reddit LSD Forum, which is linked to the icon below. Let's see if this link gets me banned in the Phillipines and Muslim countries.

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